Elías Palti (PhD, History, University of California, Berkeley) is professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), and a researcher at CONICET. His books include: Giro lingüístico e historia intelectual (1998), Aporías (2004), La invención de una legitimidad. Razón y retorica en el pensamiento mexicano del siglo XIX (un estudio sobre las formas del discurso politico) (2005), Verdades y saberes del marxismo (2006), El tiempo de la política. El siglo XIX reconsiderado (2007).
His work has offered a radical critique of the assumptions of the “history of ideas,” taking as their starting point the contributions of “conceptual history” (Reinhart Koselleck) and the “Cambridge school” (J.G.A. Pocock, Quentin Skinner), among others. His contributions have highlighted the linguistic dimensions of intellectual practices both in Latin American historiography and in the concepts inherited from the European tradition.